Lasting Impacts in 2024 | Children With Meals Allergic reactions

Collectively, we’ve made unbelievable progress in bettering the lives of individuals with bronchial asthma and allergy symptoms.

From advocating to stop unintended deaths from meals allergy symptoms, to backing groundbreaking analysis for brand new therapies. Our prime accomplishments embrace:

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Advocating for Entry to Life-Saving Meals Allergy Medicines

In 2024, KFA advocated for increasing entry to life-saving allergy medicines. Moreover, we took daring steps to advance efforts to stop unintended deaths from meals allergy symptoms, defending our family members, whether or not from daycare settings to airplane journey.

KFA helps:

• FAA Reauthorization – The brand new regulation began a course of to overview the contents of emergency medical kits (EMKs) on planes—particularly to make sure that EMKs comprise medicine to deal with anaphylaxis.
• Elijah’s Legislation – This regulation will assist guarantee childcare facilities take steps to handle meals allergy symptoms for the youngsters of their care and maintain youngsters with meals allergy symptoms secure at their care amenities.
• Dillon’s Legislation – a bipartisan invoice that incentivizes states to permit skilled folks to hold and provides epinephrine in an emergency.

Elevating Your Voice in Analysis

We strengthened connections between sufferers and groundbreaking analysis alternatives, guaranteeing their voices and wishes stay central to innovation. In 2024, KFA recruited individuals for scientific trials, surveys, focus teams, and different research led by educational researchers, federal businesses, and drugmakers. KFA additionally engaged caregivers of youngsters with meals allergy symptoms as skilled advisors to many of those researchers.

By means of partaking our neighborhood with analysis, KFA developed a call information for oral immunotherapy (OIT) that individuals can use to speak to their allergists about OIT as a remedy choice. This resolution information was revealed in medical journals and is now obtainable to all docs and other people with meals allergy symptoms.

Serving to You Handle Meals Allergic reactions with Confidence

In 2024, KFA educated folks managing meals allergy symptoms by:

• Offering personalised assist to assist folks handle bronchial asthma and allergy symptoms by offering sources and assist to over 55,000 folks on our two on-line assist communities.
• Responding to 1,228 inquiries submitted to AAFA’s Assist Middle and 268 questions submitted to AAFA’s Ask the Allergist service.
• Serving as a trusted ally for the meals allergy neighborhood by sharing the most recent information and traits, equivalent to rising remedy choices, new allergy-friendly meals, recipes, and remembers by means of KFA’s Strides e-newsletter and digital communication channels.
• Providing well being education schemes on meals allergy symptoms and associated circumstances like bronchial asthma and eczema.
  • Greater than 6,000 folks attended our academic packages for individuals who reside with or handle allergic circumstances.
  • Greater than 7,500 well being care professionals attended our persevering with education schemes on treating allergic circumstances.